Club Scrap Shades of Winter Blog Hop

Shades of Winter Blog Hop!!

Today I am working with Club Scrap's Shades of Winter.  So this is an absolutely perfect kit for me - it snows buckets here in Montana!!  For the last two days it has basically not stopped snowing.  I shovel and shovel and turn around to find MORE snow right where I shoveled!  It's crazy.  I had to venture out onto the roads today and I don't know what happened to all the plows around town - but they are slacking on getting the streets plowed - I was never so happy to get back home and feel safe and sound once again!

So my inspiration was the gorgeous snowflakes in this kit.  I made 3 versions of cards using the snowflake images.  All three cards used similar technique with a bit of spin on each one.

Supplies:

Cardstock

Versamark ink

Embossing powder

White acrylic paint

Embossing tools (or improvise)

Instructions:

1.  Ink the background of the card front using a similar color ink as the background or black.

2.  Use versamark and stamp images, use embossing powder and heat emboss images.

 For a bit of twist on this dark blue version - Draw a diagram on the front of the card like this: 

Then stamp the teeny tiny snowflakes along to lines - creating a large snowflake - doing this method you can create as large a snowflake as you want.

For the red version of this card - I stamped the smaller snowflakes in the shape of a Tree.  You could to this for various shapes like candy canes, bells, ornaments, etc.

3.  Next I used a white gel pen and drew lines from the snowflakes up to the top of the page, creating strings that they hang from.

4.  Next I used some embossing tools with different sized heads to create little dots along the 'string'.

I also added dots to the large snowflake filling any gaps between the little snowflakes I stamped.

I think these turned out pretty good - you can do a number of different designs with the dots on the strings.

Thanks for stopping by...now for more great stuff -

go check out Cheryl's blog hop project!!!
Or if you want to start at the beginning,
go check out Club Scrap!!!

The majority of the materials used in this project are from ClubScrap. TFL DebDuzScrappin

December Art Team Challenge

December Artist Challenge

December Artist Team Challenge is to select one (or more) of the December forum challenges and create a project that meets that challenge. We hope to inspire more folks to check out the variety of ongoing monthly challenges and possibly increase participation.

If you want to start at the beginning of the hop, start HERE.

December monthly challenges can be found here: http://clubscrap.com/forums/forum/other-stuff/challenges/

I chose the Card Sketch challenge.  Here was the sketch used for the challenge:

I used Club Scrap Boardwalk kit for this card.

I used Club Scrap Paris kit for this one:

I used ClubScrap's Shades of Winter kit for this one:

Thanks for stopping by!!  Check back soon for more fun stuff!

Now go check out LILIAN's project next!!!

The majority of the materials used in this project are from ClubScrap. TFL DebDuzScrappin

Challenge post

Well I am feeling a bit overwhelmed ... so many things to do this month with Christmas just looming around the corner...my kids are so much older and their gift ideas are out of this world expensive. They don't want 'toys' anymore...so I can't really get good ideas out of them...I know if I need to get items ordered, I need to do it now...and then there's cleaning, planning, researching and various other tasks to accomplish before the end of the month.  Oh and yeh, I can't help but self impose extra work on myself, like I have decided I want to paint a painting for each of my boys for Christmas, and maybe even one for my son's girlfriend...try painting when the kids are always around!! But I don't wanna run them outta the house, shoot just a couple more years and I won't have em around at all... It doesn't work too good - but never the less, I still want to do it...so anyways - here I am making a card for the card sketch over a MojoMonday instead of doing any of my much needed chores!!

Here is my take on the sketch using ClubScrap Oopsy Daisy kit.

The majority of the materials used in this project are from ClubScrap. TFL DebDuzScrappin

Digital layout - December calendar page

Here is my December page out the 2016 Calendar I put together.  I created it with the ClubScrap
Aurora Borealis digital kit.

The majority of the materials used in this project are from ClubScrap. TFL DebDuzScrappin